135
« on: February 07, 2009, 08:22:28 AM »
In Elisabeths diary ( not found to this day but quoted by Marie Larisch), Elisabeth explained her tendencies.
I do not belong to those whose spiritual senses are closed off.
And that is why I hear, or, rather,feel the thoughts and the will concerning me of my spirit,
That is why I see blonde Else of the Rhine and Bubi( her nephew Taxis, who died young), once I also saw Max(brother-in-law), but he did not have the strenght to tell me what he clearly wished to tell me.... These images come to me in a waking state, just as a memory arouses "phantoms" while we sleep.
But what I see in the waking state are not phantoms, not hallucinations, as some people, who lack understanding, claim, and so give a meaningless word instead of a logical explanation....It gives me grat satisfaction and deep reassurance in many an hour that I can make a connection with spirits from beyond. But with very few exceptions, people do not understand, they declare to be nonsense.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Elisabeth told her daughter Marie-Valerie(and she wrote it in her diary) and to Marie Larisch(that also wrote it down) about the "apparitions" of Ludwig II. Once she said, she heard a noise like the gurgling of water while she lay in bed.
Gradually this soft trickle filled the whole room, and I experienced the entire plight of drowning. I wheezed and choked and struggled for air, then the horror disappeared, with my last strenght I sat up in bed and could breathe freely again. The moon had risen, and its glow turned the room bright as day.
Then I saw the door slowly opening, and Ludwig entered.
His clothing was soaked with water, which ran down and formed small puddles on the parquet floor.
His damp hair was sticking to his white face, but it was Ludwig, looking just as he did in life.
Then Elisabeth continued, a conversation with Ludwig's spirit. And he spoke of a woman who was burning: "I know that it is a woman who loved me, and until her destiny is fulfilled, I shall never be free. But afterward you will meet us, and the three of us will be happy together in paradise."
Elisabeth told Marie Larisch:
"But while I spoke, the apparition vanished; once again I heard the dripping of unseen water and the gurgle of the lake against the shore. I was seized with horror, for I felt the nearness of the shades from that other world who were holding out their ghostly arms, seeking the comfort of the living."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Written in the midsummer of the year 1890 Elisabeth wrote this (its also in her poetic diary):
Dear Future Soul!
To you I pass on these writings.
The Master(Heinrich Heine) dictated them to me, and he has determined their purpose, that is, 60 years from 1890, they are to be published to benefit political prisoners and their needy families.
For in 60 years no more than today will happiness and peace - I mean liberty - be established on our little star.
Prehaps another one? Today I am unable to tell you this, prehaps by the time you read these lines, Cordially, for I sense that you wish me well,
Titania
midsummer 1890.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In late 1890 Elisabeth wrote to Marie-Valerie.. it is about Katharina Schratt:
One must not look forward to anything not expect anything good.
Life has enough bitter pain. But Poka(its a hungarian word and a code name for Franz joseph) is happy tonight, I have invited his friend(K. Schratt) for 6:30 to Ida's to tell her a few travel memories. And today we went for a walk in Schönbrunn. It is so good finally to see a happy face in this dark, sad, and abandoned castle, and tonight Poka is truly merry as a lark.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have this from the book the Reluctant Empress by Brigitte Hamann..
Most of the important letters were burned by Elisabeth even Rudolfs last letter ordered to be burned. Her agent in this was her closest confidante of many years, Ida Ferenczy. Only a few Letters from the 1860 and all the letters from about 1891 remained of those Franz Joseph had written to her through the tens of years of separation.
In Marie-Valeries Diary are some letters that she had from her mother..
I have some other letters and poems of her..when i find them i will place them here again.
Show Posts
new
new
